The aim of this Colloquium is to have a low entry – which does not imply low level – interactive, single day event for and by PhD students. It will be a unique opportunity for PhD students to speak, practice your presentation, shoot ideas, and ask basic and/or difficult modelling questions to fellow PhD students in a relaxed atmosphere. You will also have the chance to learn about the review process and off course, to get to know each other!

In knowledge engineering, ontology is a specification of a conceptualization of a given domain. It deals with the formalization of the objects of knowledge in that domain: abstract types of ontological elements or objects are defined, together with their relations. If we consider Agent Based Models as a particular form of domain, ontology can be viewed as a step in the process of formalizing the model. More specifically, the process of building ontology could be a mediator between model makers and domains experts to formalize ABM. Ontologies are also used for assessment and evaluation of ABM. Such use of ontologies, defined by an “ontological test”, crossing philosophical and computer science insights, helps to solve questions of verification and comparison during the process of model building.

The ESSASIG on Socio-Ecological Issues of Sustainable Development aims to bring together researches using spatially explicit agent-based modelling to explore spatial, environmental and ecological-economic issues. At this year’s Social Simulation Conference we propose a thematic focus on socio-economic models for sustainability.
Understanding sustainable development in different domains such as environmentally, socially, individually and economically and the complex interactions between these domains is a challenge for recent research.

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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:01:51 GMTMario Paoluccitag:www.ssc2016.cnr.it,2016-03-14:745fa0d2603349f187520e15ba514920/112c72a0c2af877516fa32781c1645f4From Cognitive Heuristics to Social Simulation
with the support of the ESSA Special Interest Group on “Cognitive Models in Social Simulation”

Social simulation has cognitive agent behaviour at its core. The goal of this session is that of attracting researchers working on cognitive models in social simulation, including architectures, decision rules, learning abilities and decision models.

This session aims to attract extended abstracts, papers and posters that deal with social simulation in education. As the SIG Education recently started, we see this as a first opportunity to get inspired to educate social simulation to a broader setting than only universities.